Core - How far was Hitler’s foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in 1939

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• 1Describe the remilitarisation of the Rhineland
• 2Describe Hitler's rearmament of Germany
• 3Explain why Britain and France did not stop the Rhineland remilitarisation
• 4Explain why the Stresa Front collapsed
• 5Judgement: was the Rhineland the turning point in the road to war?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a British cartoon on the Rhineland

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• 1Describe Germany's territorial losses at Versailles
• 2Describe the military restrictions on Germany
• 3Explain why Germans objected to the treaty
• 4Explain the 'stab in the back' myth
• 5Judgement: was Versailles the main cause of WWII?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a German cartoon on Versailles

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• 1Describe Hitler's main foreign-policy aims
• 2Describe the ideas in Mein Kampf about foreign policy
• 3Explain why Hitler wanted Lebensraum
• 4Explain why Hitler's foreign-policy aims were popular in Germany
• 5Judgement: did Hitler always intend to go to war?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: the Hossbach Memorandum

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• 1Describe the Rome-Berlin Axis
• 2Describe the Anti-Comintern Pact
• 3Explain why Italy and Germany became allies by 1936
• 4Explain why Hitler signed the German-Polish Pact
• 5Judgement: was the Axis the main reason Anschluss was possible?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon on the dictators' friendship

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• 1Describe foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War
• 2Describe the bombing of Guernica
• 3Explain why Hitler intervened in Spain
• 4Explain why non-intervention helped Franco
• 5Judgement: was Spain just a testing ground for Hitler?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: reactions to Guernica

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• 1Describe the Anschluss of 1938
• 2Describe the Berchtesgaden meeting
• 3Explain why Hitler succeeded in 1938 but failed in 1934
• 4Explain why Britain and France did not stop the Anschluss
• 5Judgement: did Hitler achieve Anschluss because of appeasement?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: the rigged Austrian plebiscite

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• 1Describe the Munich Agreement
• 2Describe Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939
• 3Explain why Chamberlain followed appeasement
• 4Explain why appeasement ended in 1939
• 5Judgement: was Chamberlain right to sign at Munich?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon on Munich

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• 1Describe the Nazi-Soviet Pact
• 2Describe Hitler's demands on Poland
• 3Explain why Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact
• 4Explain why the Anglo-French-Soviet talks failed
• 5Judgement: was the Nazi-Soviet Pact the main reason for war?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon on the Nazi-Soviet Pact

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• 1Describe how Britain and France came to declare war
• 2Describe how British policy changed after March 1939
• 3Explain why Britain and France declared war over Poland
• 4Explain why March 1939 changed British and French policy
• 5Judgement: did they fight only to honour the guarantee?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: Chamberlain's declaration of war

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• 1Explain why appeasement encouraged Hitler
• 2Explain how Versailles contributed to war in 1939
• 3Judgement: was Hitler's foreign policy the main cause of war?
• 4Judgement: was Versailles the main cause of the war?
• 5Judgement: which factor was most to blame?
• 6Paper 2 source skill: a cartoon assigning blame

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